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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-10-06
A Canary's Four Notes.

In the song of a canary four notes
are recognized by dealers, and they
can tell by listening to it for very
few minutes whether the bird is Ger
man or American. They are the water
note, which is ripping, gurgling, at
tractive bit of warbling like the mur-
mur of a rill; flute note, clear and
ringing; the whistling note, of the
same class, but very much finer, and
the rolling note, which is continuous
melody. rising and falling only to rise
again. 1t is in the last-named note
that the American birds fail They
can not hold it Another difference
between the two is that the German
canaries are night singers-they will
sing until the light is extinguished.
But American birds put their heads
under their wings with darkness.-A
y World.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-10-06
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

MRS. FRANCES c. MIxTER edited
"Our Home Corner" in the Athol
Chronicle for more than five years.
She is a contributor to Good House.
keeping and other journals.
MRS GoFF, of Pleasant Valley, Wis,
who was elected town treasurer, has
just secured her Office in spite of Wig
orous opposition on the part of the
male of1ice-holders of the town.
Mrs. SALLIE JOY WHITE, of the Bos-
ton Herald, will read paper on "Wom-
en- in journalism" at the third an
nual meeting of the National Press AS
sociation, to be held in September, in
Denver, Col.
Mrs. HENRY WARD BEECHER has
entered into arrangements with Mr..
Edward w. Box, of Brooklyn, to fur
nish a series of articles for newspa-
pers. They will be weekly, written es-
pecially for women.
Miss MINNIE PHELPS, of st. Gather
ines, Canada, took the honors of the
oratory class in the College of Oratory,
Philadelphia, and was chosen, because
of her standing, to speak in the Phila-
delphia Academy of Music on Com
mencement night. She selected the
temperance question for her theme.
speaking before fine audience, and
was encored.
Mrs. SARAH PETERS, wife of the
British Consul at Philadelphia, in 1S47,
founded during her residence there q
school of design for women, which has
grown to be the largest institution of
its kind in the country. The Phila-
delphia Record speaks with pride of the
prospects of the school for the coming
year. Mrs. Peters was an able advo-
cate of equal rights for women. She
felt the evils of the usual mode of dress
to the extent that she assumed. for o
time, the Bloomer costume. modified.
A DAUGHTER of Ogden Bradley, of
New York, and niece of Bishop Nicely,
of Maine, has won diploma from the
famous Paris School of Medicine, pass
ing brilliant examina tion and re-
ceiving the maximum mark. Her
thesis was "Iodism," and for an hour
and half she was shrewdly and ably
questioned by four of the leading pro-
fessors of the school, each of whom
had been provided with copy Of the
thesis. She wore the black gown and
fichu prescribed for candidates.
Mrs. POTTER, of Scranton, Pa, is
evidently woman not to be imposed
upon. The Philadelphia Record relates
that the other day she ordered man
to stop painting her fence. He re.
fused, and she turned on him her gar
den hose and drenched him to the
skin. Then another man came Oil the
scene who told the first man to paint
the fence, and directed the latter to go
on with his work, and with pistol
pointed at Mrs. Potter, told her if she
put the hose on again he would shoot
her. The hose was put on them both,
and they left suddenly.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-10-06
NEW FANCY WORK.
How to Crochet Pretty SILK Stockings and
Comfortable Mitts.

Comfortable Mitts.
The newest kind of fancy work is the
crocheting of silk stockings. They
can be made in about one-half the
time it would require to knit them,
and, although not quite so durable, are
more open and consequently cooler. A
fine crochet hook aud four spools Of
knitting silk are required.
Make chain long enough to pass
around the upper part of stocking
of the proper size and to lap over
twenty stitches, join. First row! Make
three chain, skip one on the first
chain, catch down; make three chain,
skip one, catch down, ETC., to the end
of the row. Second row: The chain
begins in the center of the three on
first rewi It is not to be fastened in the
stitch, but about it, so that it will slip;
make three chain and catch about the
center of the next three on the first
row, and so on for quarter of a yard,
then skip one group of three, make
five rows. skip another, then five more
rows and so on, until the ankle is
reached.
The first row on the ankle should be
made at the back to form the heel;
crochet enough loops to go about the
heel of the pattern stocking, then turn
and go back and forth until
long enough; double in two and
crochet together at the bottom, thus
forming heel pocket, For the foot
begin at the seam of the heel and
crochet about, across the front of the
ankle and down to the other side to
join the start, and so on, narrowing
gradually toward the toe.
These stockings are very elastic and
should lack several inches of being as
long as the usual size worn. They are
very cool and comfortable.
Mitts made in the same stitch are
also pretty. The start is made as far
up on the arm as one wishes them to
come and gradually tapered toward
the wrist, then out again until the
thumb is reached. Five or six loops
are caught together to form the
thumb, and four rows are crocheted
on to this. and two more on the hand
part A little narrow scallop finishes
! top and bottom. and three rows of the
same seallop are placed on the back
/ " i. Journal
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-10-06
AFTER THE BOOM.
A Dakota Real-Estate Agents Way o
Figuring Up His Profits.

A Dakota Real-Estate Agents Way of
Figuring Up His Profits.
'The real-estate season must be about
over," said friend to real-estate
agent in Dakota town which has en-
joyed an unprecedented boom.
"Yes, things will be rather quiet
now till next spring"
'Did you make much out of the
boom?"
"Oh, yes, we did pretty well; though
we were to considerable expense and
had some heavy losses"
What expenses do you refer to
office rentp"
Eyes. partly but then that isn't
very heavy; this office only costs us two
dollars a month. The biggest expense
was paying cur share for having the
thirteen railroads surveyed into this
place That cost us about u hundred
dollars"
"But they will be surveyed for next
year so you won't have that expense
them"
"Yes, but we're liable to have to
put two or three men with teams and
scrapers out on one of the roads in the
spring-can't sell real-estate always
on 'veys alone. Then we had to pay
a hundred dollars towards a descrip-
ton of the boom in the St. Paul and
Minneapolis papers, and another hum
dred for livery bills, and fifty dollars
towards paying the men we hired to
drive around the streets and saw on
the lines and act in an awful hurry
every time any land buyers came to
town.
"How about that street-carP"
"Yes, we had to chip in ten dollars
toward that, and l expect that next
year Wen have to lay some track and
hire man to drive the car back and
forth-the Eastern capitalists will be-
gin to get onto the scheme of having
that car stand there in the mud"
"What were some of the losses you
spoke OFF"
well, tramp who happened to be
pretty well dressed said he was from
Chicago, and only waiting for a remit
tance to buy heavily of our real estate.
We believed him. guaranteed his board
at the hotel for week, and then he
skipped.
"Was that ALP"
"Oh, no. A man from Omaha beat
me out of two hundred dollars at poker
and then left without buying a lot
Then we cashed bogus checks and lent
money to men from st. Louis to the
extent of some three hundred. Their
a ministerial-appearing chap from
Milwaukee bought block to build ar
orphan asylum on and managed to get
the deed and skip without paying 8
cent Take it altogether. though,
don tknOw as we can complaint CUES,
we cleared about forty thousand for tbs
season. - Ddkota Rel
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-10-06
LAMENT OF A HOLE.
Useful In Many Ways, 1t Is Often Unap-
preciated and In Trouble.

pTocihtcu anu ih lTOuDios
l am hole. I'm a sociable, good
natured hole, and although l have been
pretty nearly everywhere, can't help
feeling rather dazed at having sneaked
into print. But l hope you won't think
any the less of me for that. You will
find a great many worse things in print
than holes.
My Importance in the world is great
ly underestimate. People never think
of me until they need me to crawl into.
And when l do offer my services ! am
repulsed with scorn. A man will dig
two days to produce me when he wants
well in his garden, and yet when he
finds me right in his pocket he is not
satisfied, and gets rid of me as soon as
possible.
am very modest hole, too. / al
ways try to seclude myself from the
public gaze. Last summer | hid in the
surf at Atlantic City, but big fat
man, who was going to bathe, fell
right into me. and instead of apologize
ing as "a gentleman should, commenced
to swear at me. l then squeezed my
self very small and took refuge in the
bottom of an ocean steamer, thinking
l would be out of sight there, but was
found out and driven away by the
ships carpenter. We holes lead terri
Bile lives.
All the great inventions of the world
are largely indebted to holes for theil
utility. Cannons and rifles would be
entirely useless if there were no holes
to put the ammunition in, and even
then would be harmless if they oouldn't
make holes in what was shot at Yet
nobody ever gives holes credit for oul
usefulness. On the contrary, when
ever man gets into trouble he blames
1t on us and says he is in hole.
Although look very innocent at the
bottom of a flower-pot, / am exceed
ingly dangerous when l start out OF
my travels. l once stopped over nigh
in a tin roof to study astronomy, bu
it rained very hard that evening, an(
a man asleep in the room underneath
got wet He jumped up in rage anC
actually begun blaming me, as if l
and not the rain, had wet him! 4
plumber came next day, and the MAJ
chuckled and thought he was rid of me
But he soon learned differently.
ran along Under the bricks as ne wen
to his office that morning, and tn
mud squirted all over him at ever,
step he took. l then hid in one of hi
back teeth, and he nearly went wild
The dentists couldn't dislodge me, ant
the tooth had to come out. l took pit,
on him after that and let him alone.
Well, / have an engagement at tn
bank tonight as some professiona
friends mine want to get into saf
deposit vault, and they will need m
services and little gunpowder to &C
complish their purpose. So l mus
bid you goodbye. But you will a
| ways find me during the summer at tn
small boys corner of the ball groun
| e..oa Vt..J D,t,
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One Dollar Per Year.
deal of philosophy she was perfectly

deal OF philosophy she was perfectly
happy.
At every lecture the old lady was
present, the first to come and the last
to leave, and in the noon hour she
would take her simple luncheon with
her, and wander about in the woods
until the time for the next lecture ar
rived.
One afternoon she was missed from
her accustomed seat, and as she did
not appear in the evening, and it was
known that she had strayed off as
usual, fears were entertained that some
mishap had befallen her, and search
party was organized and started out.
After quite time, far back in the rear
of Hawthorne's house, the old lady
was found, prone upon the ground and
senseless She was brought down the
hill ON a litter. restoratives admins
tered, and then it was found that she
had become so weakened from insuf1i-
cient food that she had succumbed to
the heat and would have probably
died had she remained out that night,
more particularly as she had eaten a
toadstool as relish, mistaking it for
mushroom.
Her principal sorrow, however, was
that she had missed two lectures
Cambridge Chronicle.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-10-06
Working Women Organizing.

The movement to organize the work
ing women of Boston, inaugurated by
the Boston Woman Suffrage League,
took shape on Thursday evening,
August Is, in public meeting at
Wells Memorial Hall, under the au-
spices of the Central Labor Union.
This movement for working-women,
if judiciously managed, may achieve
important results. In Massachusetts
there are more than two hundred thou
sand women who earn their support,
by work outside of their own house, at
less than one-half the average rate of
wages paid to men. In Boston alone
there are twenty thousand women en-
ployed in shops and stores at from two
to four dollars per week. 1t is high
time that these women should organ
ize for mutual help and protection.
"The gods help those who help them
selves" and those ''who would be free
themselves must strike the blow"
The fundamental obstacle to fair pay
for women is the fact of their disfran-
chisement Growing out of this. the
greatest practical difficulty is their
want of special skill and technical
training. Women are almost wholly
excluded from instruction in trades and
handierafts by custom and prejudice.
The man or woman who can do one
thing well has foothold from which
to climb. Let the Central Labor
Union, which demands for women
equal pay for equal work. secure also
for women equal opportunity to learn
and practice diversified INDUSTRIES
| Woman's Journal
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-10-06
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


writings. His profits last year are said
to have been $4,000.
Mary L. Barr, the great Scottish
dialect writer, did not begin to compose
until she was ffty-four.
The first Polish newspaper ever
printed in America has been started in
Buffalo. 1t is called the OjezySna.
Verdi and his wife are building a
splendid hospital at Busseto, which
they will richly endow and give to the
town.
Mime. Popp. FOR fifty years editor
of the Bruges Journal, has written no
less than IS, 600 articles, each contain
ing from 5000 to A, 900 words.
DIR. Brinton is about to add to his
valuable collection of early American
works volume entitled Ancient
Nahnatl Poetry" 1t will contain a
number of songs in the Aztec or
Nahnatl language, most of which were
composed before the Spanish conquest.
They will be accompanied by transla.
tions and notes. Public Opinion.
Mrs. Martha Washington, who
lives with her daughter, Mrs. Captain
Patrick, in Denison, Tex, has in her
possession letter written by General
George Washington to his brother. 1t
bears date of July 2S, 1772. Mrs.
Washington is = direct descendant of
the Washington family, being grand
niece of George Washington. Chicago
Times.
The late General Logan's book,
"The Great Conspiracy" is selling
better than before his death, and Mrs.
Logan is expected to make five thou
sand dollars profit from it. His other
volume ''The Volunteer Soldier" is
now in the hands of the publishers,
and is likely to prove popular. Mrs.
Logan also is to have share in the
profits from the sale of "Lfe of Cen
eral Logan" by his private secretary.
-CUHyI cyuOsUtuoeo0'
-Garibaldi's bedroom in his little
house at Caprera is left just as when he
died; only his sword of 1860 hangs
over it, while in what was once the
dining-room are carefully preserved all
the commemorative offerings brought
or sent during the last five years--a
very hecatomb of crowns and garlands,
wreaths of fresh flowers, bronze shields,
curiously carved medallions, portraits
of fallen braves, and inscriptions in
Vulnerable.
Miss Louise Chandler Moulton has
lately visited Mr.. Oscar Wilde in Lon
don. "The Apostle of che Beautiful
has," she says, "a pretty wife and 8
pretty house. l found his dainty,
cream-colorcd dining-room especially
attractive. l think 1t must be an orig
inal design, this white room, white
walls, white chairs, white cabinets, {
white shelf foot wide running arount
the walls at convenient height-not ,
trace of color anywhere, save in thu
rare glass and china and the flowers
and fruit on the Widespread table
Oscar Wilde tells the best stories O.
any one l know, and the only fault
could find with some he told was tina
they were too good to be true. "-T
|
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-10-06
An Aged Lady Student.

Among the queer people at Concord.
this year, was an old lady of eighty
three, who had come quite a distance
to enjoy the philosophy and to worship
at the shrine of Emerson, of whom she
had been for years q most ardent
devotee.
The old lady's means were most
limited, and to exc them out by saving
her board. she had brought with her to
Concord spirit lamp, and, securing
small and inexpensive room. managed
to make her own cup of tea, and with
0 little bread and butter and q greai
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-10-06
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There are eighteen thousand fe-
male students in the colleges of this
country.
Great hearts alone understand
how much glory there Is in being
good. .-Michetet.
Ali Saints Memorial Church, in
New Milford, Conn.,, is to be lighted
by electricity. 1t is said to be the first
Episcopal church in the United States
to be thus lighted.
Rev. Russell Jennings, of Deep
River, Mass, has given $4,000 as
permanent endowment to the Baptist
Church in Lyme The income of the
fund is to be used toward paying the
minister's salary.
The direc tors of the University of
Pennsylvania have raised fund of
$50, 900 for the erection of classical
theater. The building is to be used not
only for dramatic purposes, but as a
place for holding commencements,
classical concerts, lectures, etc.
The colored sunset and the starry
heavens, the beautiful mountains and
the shining seas, the fragrant woods
and the painted flowers; they are not
half so beautiful as soul that is serv-
ing Jesus out of love, in the wear and
tear of common unpoetic life
Frederick ". Faber.
DR.. G. p Jenkins, of Southeast
Indiana conference, has been elected
president of Moore's Hill College, and
has accepted the position. He is
spoken of as scholarly, Christian
gentleman, with recognized ability
both in the school.room and pulpit" :"
NJ W. Christian AdUocate.
The announcement that the union
of the Engineering College of Japan
with the University of Toxic was to
result in dispensing with the service OF
foreign instructors in the united insti-
tutions turns out to have been errone-
Gus. Six Europeans have recently been
appointed to professorships.-M y
Ledger.
Before leaving for Europe this
summer prominent member of the
Hanson Place Church, Brooklyn, paid
his subscription (not yet due) to the
church debt, his pew rent for the quar-
ter, all his envelope contributions till
his expected return, and left with one
of the deacons five dollars for each of
the communion offerings during his alb
sence.-M y Witness.
The overwhelming sentiment Of
the teachers convention set in the
direction of Christian truth, and Chris.
tian methods, and Christian aims.
Materiaism, atheism, infdelity, agnos-
ticism, are clearly at a discount in the
estimation of a large number of our
educators. 1t is one of the shining
tokens of the time that there are SC
many in this great body of teachers
whose Influence is simply measureless,
who feel that they can not get OF
! without a personal faith in a personal
God.--Advance.
"A cable dispatch announces the
death, at Jaffna Ceylon, of Susar
Reed, wife of Rev. w. w. Rowland
for forty-two yeals missionary of thu
American Board of Commissioners fo
Foreign Missions in that field. Mrs
Rowland graduated at Mt Holyok,
Seminary in 1889, and was a teacher
there until her marriage in 1S45. Sh'
leaves six children. The death of tn,
oldest son, Rev. W. s. Rowland, ant
his wife, at Auburndale, Mass, re
Gently, undoubtedly fastened heI
death. - United Presbyterian.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-10-06
WHEN SHE WILL FORGET HIM

hpfge' aua f.,mf Ir' the naiden said
{. For Fnu indy smiling shook her head
;get the bouquets, bud and rose.
II Mareschal Neils and Jacoueminots
NJ, " Ml'n winch this most artistic youth
inas wooed me a whole month. forsootb,
'!nese are not tokens forget
ana deep within my heart are set.
rorget himf All the dainty words
hes used comparing me to birdss
ana saying how the lilies sigh
AS l. more graceful, pass them bv,,
ana now the tints upon my cheek
Pure thoughts within my heart hesne,,,,
IT'S true I've heard the same before
but what we like will bear encore.
Forget htmF With the perfect tie
10 his cravats And clothes that lie
without wrinkle-such form
AND eyeglass, that averts the storm
Oh commonplace impertinencef
ana eyes OF languid eloquencef
ana sweet mustache, that, drooping low
ie. can not hide his red lips bowi
AMI never, nerer!-till see
youth who owns more wealth than ben
Ti1- " ife
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-31

Mrs Lena Lindemsn, wife of A. +,
Lindeman, the baker, died at her home
on Canal street on Sunday morning last, OF
fever, consequent to child bi rth She was
Ill but three weeks, and suffered her untold
fortunes with resignation and christian
f0rtitude truly heroic.
She was born in Germany, Dec. 3Oth,
164S, and at the early age of 16 years was
Seft an orphan. She came to this countr y
at an early age, and was united in marriage
60 Mr.. Lindeman In Freeport. July 10th,
1874, Rev. D. B. Byers, officiating. During
her three years residence in this city, Mrs.
Lindemsn has made a large number of
acquaintances and friends among the Ger.
man Evangelical church, and in society.
'She was a faithful and ardent attendant
upon church duties and set worthy ex-
ample to the young and erring.
Mrs. Linieman was to bs buried from
her late residence at one o'clock Tue sdsy
afternoon Rev. d, B. Byers presiding
elder of the EIgin District of the German
Evangelical church, who officiated at her
marriage, conducting the services. The
remains were laid at res. in the Ottawa
Avenue cemetery.
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CONSuMPTIONY YIELDS,
Read Two Letters from One Lady.
FIRST LETTEE-lsa
rli'nl LEllhh-Is-.

pr~orUH, Champaign Co. H.. Aug. Il, lsSg.
Dear Dr., Mrs. kcck, Having been four months un-
der your treatment and being very much improved,
viii tell N" public about my ease, was very weak and
thin IN 1csh Was Obliged 70 lie down through the day
ami Colil scarcely walk about the house NJ, lung
were very weak, p4ned me good deal and for year
and half had coughed sud raised agoOd Deal of mat
ter had no appetite aud weak stomach, with hlOat
Ing, and much pain in my back. and arrangement OF
bowels am much stronger. have gained over thirteen
pounds 100 flesh, aalk mile uud half easily with
out fatigue, aud feel well IN every My cough has
an LETT me. aud have pain at all In nay lpns back
or ANYWHERE have Row good appetite and digestion,
uEd consider my imp OT,nlent very great under your
treatment Ny former doctor said / could live but
months sud all Thought, bat You have helpeg
me Ncry RAPIDLY aud IN every way.
AOgH friend. ANNA AlAW.
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LATEST REPORT

OrrAw LII. November .. 1885,.
Mrs Dr. kecN-Nly Dear Friend. Yours OF the 18Th
l. n hand. Found me feeling real w- expected to
yuu when in ottawa. Was coming down on Sstur.
day. but storm prevented me. | hop" YOU met with
good success, as You always do. ain stl warm old
friend Of Mrs. DR. keCk's and think shall remain 80
when think Of and what YOU have done Tor me
feel though could not do enough fuT yuu, Tor you
done 10 much for me and | have enjoyed snch good
health all thr~s wears MY husband IL going to have
one Of his friends bring hs daughter. who is In Crl
cal condition 10 yuu when you next visit Ottawa.
have several yuuT patients lately. and they
feeling well. ,yi'. ,psr Hope you wtilund ia IS
good spirits as HTu remain. A. ever. your friend
Mrs. \. r. BF.I NK.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-31

Ottawa, as usual, pays one-third more
than either Streator or La Sale, over twice
as much as Peru, and more than Peru,
MENDOZA, Earl, Tonica, Sheridan and Utica
combined. Streator's boast of business ca
pacity, wealth and population is very easily
dispeIled.